bigpeopleareold

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by bigpeopleareold 2y ago
Same here - can also buy 2 or 3 T480s for the price of a new framework even if they did deliver :D
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by bigpeopleareold 2y ago
oof I re-read this comment. I would only switch to the mac because the company didn't setup any of the required security rigamarole to run on their internal network, but otherwise, nah. I dropped that years ago - expensive, disposable
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by bigpeopleareold 2y ago
... or that the marketing and sales department is the real scaffold for enabling computing for those without university access.
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by bigpeopleareold 2y ago
Heh - I was looking for examples of 6502 Forth. I did fine fig-forth, but this looks interesting too now. This always happens on hacker news - I have some interest, and I see it on the front page of Hacker News soon after.
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by bigpeopleareold 2y ago
My job gave me an expensive high-specced laptop with Windows on it. This is the first time I am stuck using Windows daily. It's W10. With Windows Defender and a bunch of windows, it starts to slowly become unusable. Today, it blue scre
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by bigpeopleareold 2y ago
Sure, but the audience for 'being aware of DNA privacy' is not the police, but normal citizens, particularly a good number of people who, despite the abuse, are a general good in society.
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by bigpeopleareold 2y ago
How did you build that experience? It's speculative now if people can develop equivalent experience when you're job is now to constantly guide an LLM to do the right thing. We can speculate that you see patterns and seek to correc
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by bigpeopleareold 2y ago
Also - there are people forced to use Edge ... Like me. To look at my payslips. Because InTune. I use Firefox for everything else :)
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by bigpeopleareold 2y ago
My wife and I still use Skype, primarily for chat, but sometimes video calls. I had Skype Credits, but I don't really need that anymore. The service has definitely degraded (like it couldn't deliver text in a timely manner frequen
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by bigpeopleareold 2y ago
All I have been doing for the past 10 years is deal with legacy. At least with the current one, the legacy is more recent and provides opportunities for myself and the other on my team to iterate on whatever we got, particularly in the real
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by bigpeopleareold 2y ago
I am looking at CL myself, but my needs are more hobby than anything, but I want to convince myself I can find it useful for my own work in certain things (e.g. I want to maybe use Bike to run C# code in an SBCL REPL.) The feedback loop one
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by bigpeopleareold 2y ago
Yes, this is true. At this point, I would lean to that and panic. But it's also true that one can have already setup their editor to the REPL of an environment, obviating the need for using other editors and still retaining the type of
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by bigpeopleareold 2y ago
I think you should look up what the history of jaywalking laws actually are. They were lobbied by the automobile industry in the early 20th century.
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by bigpeopleareold 2y ago
Random thoughts on this topic: - Years ago, I didn't use anything. It was just me, Emacs and a few packages. I surely knew about IDE features, but didn't bother. But I did get frustrated to have to look up things every time when I
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by bigpeopleareold 2y ago
I haven't lately been writing 'useless' stuff, but have done some things a few months ago. I never finished it, but this got me thinking again. I wanted to try PyGame, never doing any game programming before. However, I start
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by bigpeopleareold 2y ago
The EU step is complete. Now get all your co-workers and random people in your company to stop scheduling stuff in Teams (better yet, just stop having meetings - a day of them gets mind-numbing, having them practically every day is painful.
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by bigpeopleareold 3y ago
Seems like you lucked out, because this never really happened for me. I wish this was the case! I have a ton of half-finished projects I could show instead of doing tests.
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by bigpeopleareold 3y ago
For me at least, I presume that the social network comes from the people you talk to, with whatever medium you use, when one is involved in a project, wherever the code is hosted. I never saw GitHub to be special. I got work from meetups, f
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by bigpeopleareold 3y ago
A mailing list is not the greatest thing in my opinion: 1. You have to subscribe to it 2. The interface for finding old issues can be bad (like long densely-packed threads with no search feature) 3. It forces me to manage my inbox (well, th
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by bigpeopleareold 3y ago
Did you find out why engagement stopped? Is a preference to the GitHub UI? Or, they simply don't want another site to deal with? If anything, the only value of GitHub to me personally is this vague rationale that 'people like that
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by bigpeopleareold 3y ago
Just a thought: if someone (like myself!) has a long list of repos of unfinished projects, this could an accrued realization that one has no time to do side projects; they have to choose business (as in having a life outside of coding) over
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by bigpeopleareold 3y ago
I agree - Technology should serve the individual fully and completely and not itself or its creators. Computing used to be like that. It still is, unless one hands their autonomy to large service providers. Even if I spend time in front of
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by bigpeopleareold 3y ago
I see plenty of people at work use it. I don't, because I feel like understanding a topic takes time. However, this applies to the work I do. Having an instant boilerplate generator is nice, I guess. I think if anything, you'll be
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by bigpeopleareold 3y ago
You are probably right. However, if I remember correctly (it's been awhile), it was one of them that didn't return a CORS header, but a 200 status, but that led to a number of requests that failed. But regardless, as an SPA, the T
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by bigpeopleareold 3y ago
I use it and it's nice, but as long as it points to web teams, it will inherit all the instability issues I have had with Teams, just without anyway to easily back out of it, unlike a regular browser.
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by bigpeopleareold 3y ago
Agreed. Teams on the web for my company continually has issues with random reloads. I traced it down thinking the problems has to do with an authentication server not sending CORS headers when requested, because each time the problem happen
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by bigpeopleareold 3y ago
I searched for a comment to supports the fact that LaTeX shines in certain areas. My memory of LaTeX has weakened over the years, since I am not writing long texts with lots of figures and such, but I know it's more than this statement
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by bigpeopleareold 3y ago
I am not an expert, just remembering what I saw. I tinker with it a little (and am writing this in a Haiku OS VM, through Falkon.) There is a daemon running when I call `ps` that I see is called package_daemon. I think it is this one: I thi
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by bigpeopleareold 3y ago
A fun and relevant challenge would be to read some works by Jon Fosse, who was the recent Nobel Prize winner. He writes in Nynorsk. It's just different at a reading level (writing it is different, since there are some different grammar
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by bigpeopleareold 3y ago
As long as you can get another job and can get severance pay, a layoff feel like an achievement than a loss. That happened me in my last company, one that I was very attached to for what I now think was irrational reasons. I wanted to leave

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